Morning Lesson August 23, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #4
1. Rav’s Introduction: We need to come to a state where our connection with the Creator will be constant, going through different states, pleasant or unpleasant, it doesn't matter what is the state. We have to feel that he is in that picture and that perception of reality together, that he is arranging the reality for us and all of reality is arranged and established by him through the form or the shape of reality we're constantly in contact with him. The more he's present before us around us, inside of us in spite of all the different forms that we feel more or less pleasant, this is our work. You need to try and try not to lose him from within the internality of our feeling, this is called strengthening or growing stronger in there's None Else Besides Him.
That all the forms that we feel in our lives down to the worst possible forms that we feel, God forbid, nevertheless through them, we feel that's coming from the Creator so that we will never lose contact with him I called out to him and then all those forms become such that strengthen and reinforce our connection with the Creator until there is None Else Besides Him is revealed clearly and eternally in us. All these verses, they explain it to us, support us, strengthen us, aim us to that state so let us keep going and we will talk but gain over and over will repeat those verses throughout the days until they'll be established in us permanently.
Reading article #8: (03:45) “One must believe as we said above...”
2. R. (05:09) Meaning let's say, that there's someone who's giving me troubles at work or maybe in the world and I need to imagine that behind him is the Creator and the Creator twists him like a puppet and that person does whatever the Creator does, makes him do and I have to relate to that person. I also need to relate to the Creator and the main thing is to relate to the Creator who is standing behind that person and I need to ascribe all those things to the Creator and not to the person.
As much as possible for me to be adhered to the Creator who's doing all those exercises to me in order to wake me up, to position me correctly because there's none else besides Him only he does anything. The fact that his is doing, through all kinds of people millions, even billions of people, this is all so that I'll be able to arrange myself correctly, relative to each and every one to be the integral part of the entire vessel of Adam HaRishon out of all those individuals souls that around me. That I need to connect with them to enter a good, correct connection, flexible where each time I correct myself or more toward connection until I finally discover that behind each and every one of those people stands the Creator and that person turns to me and manipulates me, angers me, let's say or the other way around, but that is the Creator.
I could relate to the Creator through the person to such an extent that I reach connection with the Creator under these conditions that this person is representing for me, standing between me and the Creator. In this way we aim our ego, our will to receive, so it will be ready to connect to each and every one because we're starting to understand that each and everyone is not some individual, rather those are all those modes and manners and styles by which the Creator represents himself to me so that this way I will format myself to be in complete adhesion with him. Well that's partially clear, partly not clear, the rest has to be revealed with experience but in effect we have to advance a bit more toward the perception of the Creator in our lives.
3. S. (09:23) Great example, I wanted to ask, how do I know to clarify that I've acted correctly in a given situation. I'm not sure how to react but I acted how I acted but how do I clarify if it's the correct way or not?
R. I need to see all those things that comes to me as coming from the Creator but wrapped by this person who is standing before me, then I need to relate to them in such a way in order to remain in that adhesion with the Creator and from our lives we need to see how to do it, try to do it, that we will talk about it.
4. S. (10:48) When I try to he unites all of the desires that awakened in me and To None Else Besides Him, all of the forms are rather lowly when it's on someone else's behalf that I feel I can be fulfilled and when I adhere to the Creator I say what a lowly place the Creator has brought me to and then I have complaints to the Creator, what do I do with this?
R. You can't have any complaints from the get-go, because I am with someone who's teaching me complete adhesion which is the purpose of a creation, the purpose of my development, the end of correction. So whatever their Creator awakens in me in the relationship between me and him. Meaning those people he awakens me so I learn what I'm lacking in order to reach complete adhesion and here I have what to do, constantly try and be in contact with the Creator where I wish to be adhered to him and in contact with those people who meet along the way. As much as possible to be arranged a certain way with them a certain way they may come to me with all kinds of complaints and problems, disturbances.
I need to withstand it normally the way it's organized in this world but my intentions this is the main thing that I'm taking care of, my intentions are to become completely adhered to the Creator and strengthen the connection with him. So I have work on two fronts, on the one hand I need to be I need to display a human attitude as is customary in this world the world turns as usual and together with this I need to understand that all those things come to me from there's None Else Besides Him, the good who does good, and I relate to him one on top of the other, not simple, there's a lengthy study in it but we need to try and scrutinize those things.
S. If every desire that is awake and I relate it to the Creator and I reveal that those desires are lowly are only to take advantage of the other, what is the next step.
R. Is to correct your desires by asking the Creator to change those desires and give you better desires.
S. It is okay to ask the Creator to take the egoistic desires?
R. You can do that too, at least you are asking for corrected desires, reveal in practice to be in love your friend as yourself relative to other people, that's after all what you're keeping, what you're trying to keep, what you wish to keep.
S. The lowliness that you feel inside the will to receive you what can be done with this or maybe I shouldn't do anything with it?
R. You don't feel the lowliness of the will to receive, you feel it but it's not yours, you don't ascribe it to yourself, you relate everything to the Creator has given you this exercise. Like when you're sitting on the floor like a little child and you're playing a game and this game has to teach you something and you need to play with it in order to react to it and grow smarter.
S. The distance that you depict in between what awakens in me and the “I” that is looking at it, as you said, it feels kind of inhuman.
R. You're going to get into it, get into it and deepen and go deeper into it for a few weeks until you'll see that this is the game of life that only this way can you change yourself, your observation, your view of what's happening and you're coming closer to the Creator.
5. S. (17:05) How can I adhere to the Creator if somebody comes to do bad to me?
R. Physically if someone's jumping on you you have to defend yourself just like they are doing it, it's written about it, he who comes to you, you should proceed him and make some actions in order to push him away. It's clear it's written and that's what we have to do but anyone who comes to you with all kinds of complaints you have to relate to these complaints according to that. Nevertheless don't forget that behind all the complaints of a person stands the Creator and by that he wishes to advance you on the path because you are going through the process of correction and therefore everything that happens to you is only for the sake of advancing you towards the correction.
6. S. (18:40) I have two questions, the first is how do you relate everything in reality?
R. Just as I just said, try to look at reality, at every person, every action as coming from the Creator but from within me I need to relate both to the action itself or the person who is standing before me and the Creator who is standing behind him and this is how I need to relate to both.
S. The second question you related in the beginning of your words to external people and I have somebody like that at work who is constantly bothering me and takes me out of my mind and how do I relate to it in the most appropriate way?
R. Imagine behind him is standing the Creator, the Creator is standing behind him and try to relate not to the person but to the Creator is standing behind him, it's not that you respect him or relate to him physically, according to what you see you shouldn't do it. From within you need to see a person is nothing, it's a puppet and the Creator that's behind him is twisting you and trying to manipulate you to change your attitude toward people, toward reality, to yourself and towards the Creator himself himself, so try to accept these things.
7. S. (21:02) How do I know where we are in relation to None Else Besides Him in truth?
R. You need to discover that from those exercises we are discussing here, where if you relate correctly to the person and to the Creator who is standing behind him that both of them are in front of you then eventually you'll discover the game here. Through that person regardless of who is pleasant, unpleasant can be in different forms, you'll find the connection with the Creator.
Continues reading article #8: (21:58) “One must believe as was said above ...”
8. R. (24:48) We will constantly need to strengthen ourselves to see what standing behind every action that comes between us and try to see the Creator and if we can't see him and try nevertheless to take into account that the upper force is standing there, the concealed one and he's arranging everything for us and if we aim ourselves each time towards the actions that come before us, especially with the friends in the group, in our small world that we live in that's relevant to us, if we'll take it into consideration we will see that we are in a never-ending lesson with the Creator, that he is that he is giving us, this lesson he is raising us to relate to reality, it's wonderful, we are truly receiving endless exercise.
9. S. (26:07) Why can't I directly correct the others?
R. Because you wish to correct the other and not yourself and we need to correct ourselves since the Creator is clothed in the other and he is doing all those exercises and I need to correct not myself relative to the other. I don't need to become what the other is telling me, rather I need to reach a state where I'll discover that the Creator is clothed in the other. It's not about doing what the other is saying, he might yell at me and say bad things about me, it doesn't matter what.
I need to try to merely recognize that the Creator is in all those things, so what did turns out is that I'm correcting my ego which resists seeing the Creator in each and every other, it's not simple. There are things that we cannot accept emotionally and hence also mentally, and practically but gradually start seeing how this is changing reality, it's changing the perception of reality, it changes the attitude of a person to the world. This is the method for discovering that there is None Else Besides Him but only the Creator is ultimately working through all of reality and there's no one here that's doing anything against the Creator, there's no opposing forces rather he is working for us and against us in a positive and negative side, he is shaking us so we're finding out how we can aim ourselves at the source, the one unique and unified.
S. The fact that I'm taking the flaws on myself, the question is how does it benefit the other?
R. You are taking the corruptions over yourself because you can't detect the uniqueness of the Creator throughout all of reality. You're still not adhered to him but brother you are adhered to all those different opposing forms to him, that he is good who does good to everyone and you're trying nevertheless to bring yourself closer to seeing that it all comes from the good that does good.
S. And we work constantly in front of the friends and I'm asking, how do I concern with their progress?
R. I'm not measuring the advancement of the friends to become relative to the Creator, where are you taking these things from. I don't get it.
S. As a ten we're going to the Creator we're supposed to build a corrected connection between us?
R. The correct connection between you is when you start as Rabash writes when you see it beside behind every friend stands the Creator and that's how I have to accept each and every friend. I don't see the friend, I see the Creator but the Creator clothes in the friend in order to guide me, to change me, a little more to a little bit more by this friend and a little bit more by this friend until I will acquire the correct focus, the precise focus on the Creator.
S. There's just something that I have to do, I have to correct myself?
R. Yes yes, think only of your correction, about the friends to think that they're already corrected.
10. S. (31:13) In instances where everything seems clear and there's a strong demand from the Creator to change something.
R. I don't get it.
S. The whole topic of the Creator standing behind everything in the ten, we can shape him and there are situations externally that we can't agree with and we do demand for the reality to change.
R. You can change reality by constantly aiming yourself through the friends. through different characters, lopsided characters, each one towards the Creator who's behind them and you wish it to adhere to the Creator by wanting to see the image of the Creator on top of each and every friend.
S. Then reality itself will change?
R. It depends on what you're calling reality. My attitude changes the way I see the group.
S. Will my change, my outlook on the ten, will bring dramatic change to what is happening to you and the friends.
R. All the states that are happening are happening so that you would connect more, there's no other reason, the Creator's attitude is for all of us to advance towards connection, if we are in that direction there cannot be any dramatic states. You need to arrange all those things correctly and precisely, see how it's happening and you'll see that what you're thinking is incorrect and of course each and every moment we are falling, in contradiction to what you've learned and you enter this world with all kinds of corporeal calculations but again you have to go back to the spiritual calculation and each time and each moment in each transition you are correcting the state. Don't worry if each time you are going through these corrections, you will succeed, you will have enough time to succeed if you're thinking about time. You'll be able to make it so that all the wicked are going to fall by the wayside, there's nothing to even think about and only to be confident and there's none else beside Him and we are with Him.
11. S. (35:10) Can we say that from that posterior of the Creator, the Achoraim, comes the form of Kabbalah, reception, that if there is no flesh and blood, a person cannot bestow at all?
R. Yes yes.
12. S. (35:40) How to correctly use the deficiency of a friend? I don't have the vessels to feel the friends and their problems don’t concern me, so how to correctly include the deficiencies of the others and how to correctly turn it into a Kli to progress?
R. According to what we discussed now: if the entire ten will try, each one from his own individual vessel, try to see that behind all the problems, especially the group problems, the Creator stands in order to connect us together to bring you closer to a tighter circle together. Then you'll see there are no other actions in the world, you will see that there is nothing else in the world. Rather the world is through wars, problems, falls, famine but in truth there's only one thing we have here; to connect people, to obligate them, to be closer to one another in a good way, mutually, “each shall help his friend”. If we do it this way in the connection between us we will see that behind all these actions the Creator was standing, and He arranged it for us and in this way He brought us closer to connection.
S. I understand but what we do now is as if we're attending only to the outcomes. How do we speed up? I don't even know how to express it. How do we hasten these things?
R. We don't need to hasten anything, we have to work with what the Creator is bringing down on us daily and we have to be grateful for everything and accept the good things as the bad things. Because they come only from His intention there is no one else besides Him, to bring us closer to Him and that's what we are learning that “love will cover all crimes”. That’s why we need to connect and advance towards Him and it's all happening through the revelation of the negative states and on top of them we connect, we wish to be in a more positive attitude towards one another. This is our path.
13. S. (39:06) How to determine the proper reaction if you feel that others don't relate to you correctly?
R. I need to react to everything that's coming to me as if it's coming from the Creator. So I don't aim myself directly at that object, that person or organization or something, they aren’t coming to harm me, rather the Creator is doing such actions towards me so I will react and respond correctly. Meaning for me to try to identify the person or the organization, that this entity is the Creator who wishes to come closer to me and that's why he's doing it in an opposite manner so that I will accordingly correct my attitude, correct my view of things and i will see, not see, that I will accept that is all coming from None Else Besides Him, and The Good Who Does Good in order to bring me closer to Him.
If I accept it and grow stronger in it then I need to be grateful to the Creator for giving me this exercise and also to be grateful to that person, not that I'm sending him a gift but the Creator is playing with him, and i'm grateful that through that person I received a lesson from the Creator. There's nothing here between me and the Creator, and this person simply helped form a connection between me and the Creator, if he didn't reveal himself, if he didn't jump on me, I wouldn't wake up to connect with the Creator to come closer to the Creator. So there's no bad here, only good and to the extent that I am in all kinds of shapes and forms that are closer or further away from the Creator, that's how the Creator is bringing me closer to Him.
14. S. (42:06) Is there a point of balance between spirituality and corporeality because there's a state that clothe on me perfectly and I feel it everyday like my soul just can't anymore spirituality and emotionally and I feel like I'm breaking so where can I find that point of balance?
R. Precisely in that point of shattering. It says “nothing is more whole than a broken heart”. The heart breaks and you'll see that there are truly two parts in it: the part that's inclined towards the good and the part that's inclined towards the bad, let’s say two opposing parts that between them you will find truth.
S. How do we break through all of the barriers in the upcoming congress with all the great progress of the groups in the past months?
R. We progress. They give us great exercises daily, we learn about them at least in the first part of the lesson and that's how we advance. I see a beautiful advancement in some of the tens and the other tens not so much and that is due to their negligence. But, if we take a lesson like the one we're going through right now, when you try to listen to it and relisten to it once or twice more and then during the day to discuss it in the ten, it can be extremely beneficial.
15. S. (44:09) Why does the Creator send me states where He allows me to feel the distance from the ten and at the same time He confuses me for giving me desires that are very distant from spirituality?
R. You see, that's the difference between when we are little and our parents playing with us, we don't have the brain to ask them why are you confusing us? Why are you doing it this way or that way? That's the difference between where we are right now that we ask why Creator are you doing this way or that way? We are full of criticism over what He's doing with us and that's a difference between us and little children. And, that's precisely for us to learn about our state relative to what He wants from us. That's how we see ourselves who are confused and also that He wishes to confuse us, He's doing it; we're obligated to say that There's None Else Besides Him, and in this way gradually we rise to His state.
S. If we agree with everything that's happening, what state will it cause me to reach?
R. I didn't get it. From all those states we eventually come to Him, to the Creator.
16. S. (46:24) More or less it's clear that behind each friend there is the Creator and to justify all the actions of the Creator what should be the proper reaction of mine?
R. You can say it like that, from the outside you need to relate to him as is customary in our world and internally, you need to relate to his internality that the Creator is standing there. So you have a certain attitude towards a person who is about to harm you and also have an attitude towards the Creator's organizing a person, arranging him, directing him, so you will behave not to the person but to the Creator who's inside as there is None Else Besides Him. This is a great work here, we can learn about it from many historic actions that we read about let's say the nation of Israel when they are all in such a degree that more or less feel and understand that they are on the side of the upper forms, fighting, and how they had wars that they fought in all kinds of other forces. Those were always wars of opinion; the opinion of the Creator or the opinion of the evil inclination let's say.
S. In relation to the friend and the relation to the friends of the ten, how does the friend influence him? How can I annul towards him and try not to react, how do I know what is the right reaction?
R. The correct attitude to the friend is that I love him regardless of how much or how he is relating to me, I arrange myself in such a way that i love him. That's it. And he might be relating to me coarsely nevertheless I treat him well because I wish to relate to the Creator who's behind each and every friend as Rabash writes. And when I relate to the Creator who is standing behind the friend and I wish to connect to him and then I wish to get through this entire disturbance that the friend is presenting to me; he doesn't want to talk to me, rejects me or making fun of me and so on, I wish to go beyond it in order to connect with the Creator, and as much as I'm making efforts to nevertheless get through it, I'm ready, I have more coarseness, I have greater resistance for overcoming and with this additional force I connect with the Creator. I don't have words exactly but you can probably wrap it with nicer words. Okay?
S. It's all clear my attitude towards the friends but you’re saying a lot of times that we need to take off the silky gloves and strive towards a greater connection between us, so how do we work correctly if we need to take off the gloves?
R. If we have good connection between us to such an extent that all is fine and we don't have seemingly anything else to scrutinized then we can as we say take of the gloves and begin to awaken between us the questions we had in the past and we left it there unresolved between us, there’s always some things between family and friends that we didn't scrutinize, we didn't want to talk about it “love will cover all crimes'', cover. And, if we wish to awaken this love more then we need to bring out those crimes and correct them towards connection, so we're taking the gloves off. But gradually, with the understanding that we ourselves are growing our coarseness in the connection between us and through that we can rise.
17. S. (53:00) Uniting between the friends are we in contact with the Creator or are we already in partial connection?
R. As much as we are among the friends to that extent we are in connection with the Creator it’s exactly the same.
18. S. (53:48) I wanted to ask about the external world. Usually a person tries to avoid a variety of things that annoy him that bother him. If we take a person who studies Kabbalah, what in his responses toward the source of external friction how does his attitude differ from a regular person?
R. I don't know how to explain it I don't know how to explain it, it's a matter of feeling and no matter how high a person is there's always a mental part and an emotional part and it's always between the two until he reaches the end of correction where these two things are likely equalized and there's no more difference between the feeling and his intellect and then the emotional feelings and the intellectual feelings unite towards the revelation of the complete Creator, that’s how I think.
S. Those influences that we receive from external sources that we want to avoid it, why would these sources of disturbance, we don't say to the ego let him suffer let him suffer. Why doesn't a person just accept it as a bitter pill and relate it as his correction?
R. I don't know what you're talking about if we wish to arrange between us the method of there's none else besides him the good who does good and we are looking for, in all the actions at least between us in the ten, the actions of the Creator on us I think that it's clear what we have to do what we have to look for what we need to find, I don't understand.
S. It's pretty clear regarding the ten but friends are asking someone’s asking, someone who's annoying me at work, he's annoying my ego so why do I have to even resist it? Why don't I tell the ego to just suffer? Why do I still need to act against that person who….
R. You don't need to resist the person you resist your own feeling, the person you don't reply at all I don't think we need to scrutinize these things in the open world it's important that we arrange these things in our ten because in the open world they're all kinds of calculations that are completely neither corporeal or spiritual rather we are labeled certain ways and that's how we behave.
S. You said that the person relating everything that happens to the Creator that already is a correction, the work against the ego that the ego tries to relate to everything in a certain independence. Let's say that I've done this action, or at least I've tried to, that through the influence of the people is the influence of the Creator where do I enter the ten here?
R. The ten surrounds me in my relationship with the world if I arrange everything correctly and I influence the world through the ten and I receive the importance of the world on me through the ten.
S. When we talked about the influence on me from the external, what does it mean that everything comes to me from the ten? I look at the person that he influences me, I relate it to the ten, I've done in it a certain correction but where do I bring it to the ten?
R. It exists before that it's already, it aimed you in advance you are nevertheless under its influence and this way it's not you it's you as a product at the ten.
S. So it comes out that until a person receives correctly that everything comes from the Creator and before that he must maximally be connected to the ten as much as possible.
R. Whether he likes it or not he is already a product of the ten each one of us to some extent.
19. S. (01:01:02) You said that we have to say that there's none else beside Him and then gradually we will ascend to His level. What does it mean gradually to ascend to the level of the Creator?
R. If we accept that everything we receive comes to us from the Creator only through all kinds of systems general systems of the cosmos of nature of climate doesn't matter how if we accept that things in this way then it turns out that nevertheless we are connecting with the Creator the Creator influences us through all those pipes and through all those pipes we wish to connect to the Creator.
20. S. (01:02:05) Not just say that there's none else beside Him but how to rise to His state not just verbalize it?
R. We can rise to the Creator after we gradually receive all the exercises from Him who is where He is as a concealed God and we are looking for Him more and more we are seeking Him searching for Him just like kids who are looking for one another in a game of hide-and-seek and that's how we are seeking the Creator behind all the events that we are going through internal and external our life is all about finding the Creator this is the game of life.
S. It's still not quite clear we learned that in the work in the ten… .
R. You are in the ten who is seeking the Creator you’re playing hide and seek and the Creator is constantly in concealment and you wish to find Him in this concealment.
S. But He's concealed behind everything behind any event.
R. Yes if you're connected correctly between you then you are looking for Him there and you are revealing Him there the fact that He is everywhere and anywhere that means nothing, it's as if He's nowhere but where is He, inside the ten inside the center of the ten there you can find Him. So on top of the coarseness that He is revealing in all of you if you connect as one man in one heart then you discover Him on the 1st 2nd 3rd degree and so on and so forth and He revealed to you as Nefesh, Ruach, Neshema,Yechida and so on so forth.
S. All of these degrees of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshema, the levels of connection, to what depends our levels of connection?
R. It all depends on how much you connect.
21. S. (01:04:59) If I pray for the correction of the friend doesn't it mean that somehow I disagree with the Creator?
R. No, this is all given for correction. It's very important, it's very good.
S. If I always constantly express gratitude towards the Creator will I be able to be prepared for states?
R. Yes but I don't think that you will care about not having bad states you won't if you constantly wish to give thanks to the Creator for the good that He's giving you you won't have the ability to even think of about any bad thing He's doing to you try it there's none as wise as the experienced.
22. S. (01:06:14) Is it correct to view corrections as a maturation process of a good development program of an organism and the environment just helps us to grow in that type of process?.What choice do we have and how can we participate in this growth process?
R. The active part is to see that anything that is revealed to us is coming from the Creator. That's the active part but it doesn't cancel our reaction to those forms that He is dropping on us. We need to defend ourselves against them and grow on top of it.
23. S. (01:07:28) If the Creator stands behind the friend, how do I relate to the challenges that the friend goes through?
R. You need to be as one with a friend. Read again what Rabash is writing in Social Writings.
24. S. (01:07:58) If to the relation of the friend what should be the relation of the Ten to Him and should we keep him as a friend?
R. It's not clear.
S. If a friend sues another friend in the Ten and what should be the relation of the friend that is suing and can he remain as a friend?
R. The Ten has to discuss it and gradually, slowly, and scrutinize what you're asking. There's no answer, only a scrutiny here.
25. S. (01:09:12) You gave an answer to a friend from the North that 'there is no more whole than a broken heart', everything is clear but my question follows that answer when a person reaches a state where he reveals the two opposites in him the will to bestow and the will to receive then the person allows him to break through the Machson? Is that what it means?
R. I can't answer your asking intellectually how it seems to you. Discover It emotionally because we're just talking about it emotionally here because a desire is a feeling and then I'll be able to answer you. You will answer it yourself actually.
S. This is in the desire of a person not in the consciousness, not in the awareness?
R. Yes.
26. S. (01:10:28) There's the example of Rabbash and Baal HaSulam, I'm not sure, where person sits at home and guests come to him and he picks up the book and start studying,what does it mean that the Creator awakens a person and not through Achoriam,posterior ?
R. Yes, such a thing exists where He is pulling him forward by awakening in him certain desires, illuminating,and shines on him from up ahead, a distance, from up close but then a person gets up and does. That's for beginners. That's what we do in our world. We give out candy. All kinds of pleasant things are little one I'm supposed to go to school. We do it in such a way that it all feels very festive, very nice, very pleasant but gradually we begin to put them into more and more difficult states.
S. You said that there are questions that are advanced and progressing inTens that are not are.
R. Negligence means it doesn't maintain the connection between the friends and increases the connection between the friends. This is where it's being negligent. There's nothing more, it's not speaking of knowledge or how much they grasp or know. Rather, it's the connection between everyone and how much they care about the Arvut between everyone.
S. How can we check where we are in relation to that incorrect in the matter of negligence?
R. Try to do it and you'll see if you can do it or not. Only by practically trying to do it. Practical implementation of Arvut.
27. S. (01:12:53) This is a friend's question. There is 'None Else Besides Him', what does it mean that crimes of a friend against another friend cannot be excused?
R. We will need to correct these crimes between one person and his friend in order to correct them and fill them later with the upper light. This is the meaning of it's possible to leave them as they are because specifically because between a person and his friend are those flaws that we need me to reveal and correct and fill and this will bring us to the end of correction.
28. S. (01:13:51) Let's say I'm going to meet a friend and the cop stops me, gives me a report, gives me a ticket then at some point in revelations with the friendsI get a blow and it's all so fast and it hurts. How in the connection between the Ten can I come to 'None Else Besides Him' in the Ten? It's a hateful process?
R. Talk about it, that's what you're missing, talk about it and scrutinize that all these things that happen on the other way to connection. First of all there is None Else Besides Him. First of all you have to accept that this comes from Him, along with that you also have to correct yourself so it won't happen again.
29. S. (01:14:54) To see the Creator behind their friends is that the end of correction or if there's some kind of action that has to be done after that?
R. Seeing the Creator standing before the friend it's not the end of correction, it's the beginning of a spiritual action.
S. After I manage to remember what does He expect of me as a point?
R. That this is how he will start to behave onward.
S. What is to behave?
R. That you will always hold the Creator standing behind the friend.
S. That's enough to just hold on to the fact that this is the Creator, is there some other action?
R. No other action, you don't need anything else if you're depicting the Creator behind the friends that's enough.
30. S. (01:15:53) What is the desired result if I receive a ticket and I want that behind the whole event to see the Creator standing behind?
R. Of course this ticket you got was from the Creator and that policeman was only the one who gave you this ticket from the Creator. You need to organize that ticket and to organize your relation to the Creator. Your relation to the Creator you organize that by saying thank you very much I guess I forgot about you and you reminded me about it and about the ticket while you have to pay because you were dangerous for others.
31. S. ( 01:16:57) What exercise can we do throughout the day in order to feel that behind every friend the Creator stands?
R. Talk about it as much as possible. As much as each one can depict but without confusing the others but be brief, be practical try that and we will talk about it tomorrow.
32. S. (01:17:39) When I don't manage to see the Creator behind a certain action, what do I need? How should I interpret this towards my work in the ten?
R. You need to be connected more to your friends, talk about it between yourselves, try to be more mingled with each other and then it will become more clear to you what we are talking about.
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33. R. (01:21:12) This is a bit difficult for us, this stems from the Creator, he’s responsible over all actions, all thoughts, everything is done by the Creator and there is None Else Besides Him, however when we come to what’s happening with people, so here we are confused, everything is done by the Creator, so what is in favor, what is against, what's good, what's bad, what should we agree with, what shouldn’t we, what should we correct, what not to, if everything is done by the Creator, and so there is a teaching for us and it's not simple, it is not simple. It really confuses us until we come closer to the Creator and to the extent that we come closer then we start to understand what are the good things and the bad things, what enters concealment and what remains in revelation, so we will see what you think.
34. S. (01:22:38) It's written, but the Creator concealed himself in the clothing of Lo Lishma, the friends as such, what is Lo Lishma towards friends, is it my commitment towards them?
R. All kinds of different states in which we can behave which is without adhesion with the friends and without adhesion with the Creator, that is called Lo Lishma.
35. S. (01:23:12) I had the same question but now that's already answered I would like to ask if you could open up this concept of the Creator standing behind each friend and seeing there are things that we do need to correct and things that we do not, how does one choose, how does one decide which actions to take in terms of correction, or if it’s just enough to accept that it comes from the Creator and there doesn't need to be a change in the work, that I just annul to the friends because I know the Creator stands behind them?
R. A person should do whatever he can in order to be of maximal adhesion through the ten, with the Creator, that will aim him correctly.
36. S. (01:24:18) When I note that the more I come closer a friend, I see negative things in the friend, this happens and me and it's clear that it is my ego and then a certain moment comes that I manage to overcome and rise above it so then I see him in a positive way, this is exactly what we learned today, that behind every friend I see the Creator, so I see that there are two parts of me, the part that loves the friend and the part that doesn't love the friend, how to work correctly here when the qualities that are being revealed in me somehow need to be balanced?
R. Yes, when we see that we're divided in two opposite parts, with respect to each and every one, the group, the world, that is how it says that one has two inclinations, that's how it's written, so what should we do? I would recommend to mingle in the group in a way that you will start to understand that in this mixture you are losing the bad parts end the good parts and there is a mix that is made between them, a mixture. There is no good, there is no bad, rather everything has to be together, there is no bad without good and no good without bad because we are the created beings and in the created beings there should always be a desire to receive, which is the primary part of the creation without the will to receive we cannot feel anything.
We are made and we stand on the will to receive, that is our foundation, and the will to bestow is only in order for us to have an opportunity to aim the will to receive so we will take upon itself same shape as the Creator, but we exist thanks to the will to receive, we are in it and that is our material and this is why we need to see ourselves in a way that there is a will to receive, and we are in it, and we understand that we don't disregarded because that is the material of creation and it does not disappear, what disappears only is the intention to use it in order to receive, however if we use our will to receive in order to bestow, then by that we come closer so the desire to bestow.
S. If possible, you are talking now and I really feel that it is a certain paradox, that the more the bad grows in me, but as I'm growing how can I intensify the love above all that, is that how it works?
R. Yes, there is no more certain remedy and beneficial state than if you want to increase the desire to love the friends. This will certainly work, all the rest, doesn't depend on you, it's not about you, it is more about you and the Creator, so who knows what’s going on there, between you and the friends, if you want to open more your heart, so it will the open towards the friends, by that you advance and you heal your states.
37. S. (01:29:10) I will try to express it correctly, from excerpt number 9, it turns out that the Creator awakens a person through clothings and positive or negative feelings, doesn't matter what, and the person needs to come to None Else Besides Him and to perform certain actions, which Baal HaSulam calls them Mitzvot and to come to the fact that the Creator is the good that does good. So what here is in the control of a person, to just to think of the Creator or does it mean to be a righteous is just being under his control?
R. We can say so, yes, we can say so. I have a person with whatever he get from the Creator, after scrutiny and examining it, scrutinizing it and agreeing, you say that I bless the Creator then by this he has performed a just action, he has become righteous there, but there is no righteous without a wicked inside, that curses the Creator, does not want him, pushes him away, doesn't agree with him, and after that repents, and understands how the Creator did it in him, and manipulated him, then he goes out through all the actions in the opposite way and he is attached to the Creator ultimately, that is called righteous.
38. S. (01:30:56) In the same context, when you try to incorporate in the friends, for some reason the friends reject you, give me advice, how can I do it so they won't repulse me?
R. You have to increase your desire towards the friend and to see that when he pushes you away, that's how it seems to you, maybe this is the exercise you got from the Creator, but it is all for you to increase the force to connect to him.
39. S. (01:35:07) How to understand what the Creator wants to say to me through a person, how to decipher his message?
R. I should listen to what the friend is saying and I should see according to what Baal HaSulam says, how to aim myself through the friend to the Creator and then maybe I will receive more or less right guidance the Creator wants to teach me.
40. S. (01:35:52) How to be worthy to see what is coming from all the friends and through everyone?
R. Make an effort to see that what happens to me is all the influence of the Creator on me and there are billions of people around me, there are hundreds of friends and I am affected by everyone, but I can, I may sort myself out in a way that I will be only connected to my ten and through them I will be connected to the Creator and then I will learn through them, from this small group, the ten and the Creator, how I can make a connection with the Creator in the right way, a ten is like is like a connector, an adapter.
40. S. (01:37:00) How can we identify the Creator behind people and what are the advantages that we can get from them?
R. The Creator is truly behind each and every person for me and I’d like to identify him behind them, to the extent that I am attached to the ten, I identify the Creator more and more, standing behind them to such an extent that all the images of the friends and everything they say, all becomes the Creator's relation to me directly. Until to the extent that I reach a connection with the friends I come to connection with the Creator.
41. S. (01:37:56) If the Creator stands behind every friend, is he also behind me, can I justify my deeds before the Creator?
R. No, behind me, that’s a whole different kind of teaching, I talk about what I see in my ego before me, through the ten. That is what is important, other than that I will also learn about myself.
42. S. (01:38:28) Should we implement None Else Besides Him only in the ten or all of humanity?
R. No, only in the ten, in the meantime it's impossible to do it with the entire humanity, this will completely confuse us and we will not come out of it.
43. S. (01:38:48) What is the essence of the interaction when we try to feel the presence of the Creator truly and his work with us, behind everything, is it an act of differentiation from the ego or is there something else here?
R. In our actions with the ten, we try to separate ourselves from our ego and to give our ego, because besides the ego we don't have anything, so to give our ego the right expression, the right form, the expression towards the others, the friends, and through them to the Creator, until the Creator connect to us as the good inclination and we connect to Him as our evil inclination, willing to correct it to become as much as we can, the good inclination, besides the evil inclination we have nothing, so we perform a restriction, a screen and reflected light and we start to relate to the Creator through these corrections, to the extent that we connect from our evil inclination, let’s say from the first correction, from Nefesh to Nefesh to Nefesh, to that extent we start attaining the Creator, as he relates to us with that same manner, because he’s enclosed in our reflected light, this is how we reveal Him, the relation to Him every time and according to that relation with respect to equivalence of form, He clothes on that and that’s called the revelation of the Creator to the created being.
44. S. (01:40:47) If there is the Creator behind every person and nothing remains for me but to pray for correction what to do if it’s kind of numbing to do everything except for just constant prayer?
R. But in order to reach that constant prayer, I have to perform any actions, many actions, I have to try to identify them as really the Creator before me and what He requires of me and how I will relate to people that are people who are harming and those who want to do good to me, how should I sort them out, how do I relate to them, organize connections with them, the right relations, and through them, as I identify my relations with the ten, how do I relate to the Creator, I have a lot of work, when before I come to the Creator ultimately. A lot of work. But this whole work is building my vessel, building my soul, to the extent that I build it, I later discover how the Creator is in the soul, in this vessel, filling it.
45. S. (01:42:21) How to combine in the work that you describe today if it’s not for myself who is?
R. If I'm not for myself who is, this means that only in my work, from below upwards in connection and correction my relation to the friends, if I come to a ten, well any ten, a connection with some other friends, to that extent I can come closer to the Creator, if the extent of connection between us will be somehow equal to the extent of connection that can be according to the extent of connection with a Creator, then the Creator will be revealed in the connection between us, we have to come to the equivalence of form, which is our form of connection between us, so we like the quality of the Creator to bestow, so can we bestow at least to a certain extent between us, if we can then the Creator will be revealed there, because the law of equivalence of form is above us and it's only waiting to be carried out.
46. S. (01:43:49) The more you invest in friends, that's how you can see clearer how the body is taking reward for itself, so what is missing to give it all to the Creator?
R. Mutual support of the friends in the group, what we call Arvut. It is impossible alone, I can relate nicely to everyone as much as I can, but it won't do, it won't help, only in the form of the Arvut if we are in it, one can help his friend.
47. S. (01:44:36) Does the Creator want me to correct my attitude or to change something in the corporeality?
R. In corporeality we can change nothing, I will be as a result of states that we are in in spirituality and to the extent that we have to advance, that is why the Creator organizes corporeal shapes, both in the world and in the countries and in closer circles, to the extent that it will help us to be more aimed at connection.
48. S. (02:45:22) What does it mean that He dresses in the flesh and blood himself?
R. This is what we are learning that the Creator stands behind every friend.